BBR Holiday Show: Critic's Choice!

Hey Everybody!

Check it out! Our show got Critic's Choice in The Reader today!
Here's the review...

Jingle Belles! (The Naughty List)
Christmas and Hanukkah provide most of the setups - Star of David pasties, for instance - in this variety show of burlesque, stand-up and magic, a holiday version of the monthly Belmont Burlesque Revue. Mark Henderson as host Jack Midnight, who's "between divorces," and Chris Biddle as his sidekick lead the crowd in rousing "Drink, mothafucka" toasts (Biddle nearly knocks back a full beer boot during one song), and even regular stand-up guest Jared Logan nurses a can of Bud as he pokes fun at the Bible and recounts sexual experiences gone awry. He and Tomas Medina, an impressive "geek" magician who doesn't drink but does smoke and eat several cigarettes, get unqualified laughs and gasps. The camp factor of the burlesque should probably be raised a notch, and Henderson's carols, sung straight, sort of disrupt the raucous energy, but this is still a festive late-nighter for anyone thirty for this kind of ribaldry.

Of course, Dedicated Readers will note that "The Apple Juice" bet will not be repeated in future shows. My ass simply cannot handle the pounding it takes to knock back that much apple juice.

But it's nice to get a little more attention on the show AND perhaps sell a few more tickets. That is, after all, the only use for reviews, either positive of negative. (The only difference between the two is that you have to edit negative reviews to pull blurbs for your marketing materials. Positive reviews require less editing.)

Anyways, the show has two more performances. And I bet that this will pretty much seal the deal as far as reservations go for those two shows. And that's pretty great. It's a good show. I want people to see it. This review (albeit booze-oriented) should help that happen.

Cheers,
Mr.B

PS. I'm actually not at the show on the 8th. I'll be in the KY, doing a Santa appearance. But that shouldn't stop you from checking out the show, if you can.